Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens have both taught undergraduate Shakespeare courses. They are the co-authors of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation (2013) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance (2016).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Titus AndronicusChapter 2 Richard IIIChapter 3 A Midsummer Night’s DreamChapter 4 Romeo and JulietChapter 5 The Merchant of VeniceChapter 6 HamletChapter 7 OthelloChapter 8 King LearChapter 9 MacbethChapter 10 CymbelineChapter 11 The Winter’s TaleChapter 12 The TempestConclusionReferencesIndex

Entertaining and illuminating … This volume is of great value and provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare in an adaptation that seems especially suited to those studying at the undergraduate level, offering not just an entry point into the plays discussed but many suggestions for further reading and research.

Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens have both taught undergraduate Shakespeare courses. They are the co-authors of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation (2013) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance (2016).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Titus AndronicusChapter 2 Richard IIIChapter 3 A Midsummer Night’s DreamChapter 4 Romeo and JulietChapter 5 The Merchant of VeniceChapter 6 HamletChapter 7 OthelloChapter 8 King LearChapter 9 MacbethChapter 10 CymbelineChapter 11 The Winter’s TaleChapter 12 The TempestConclusionReferencesIndex

Entertaining and illuminating … This volume is of great value and provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare in an adaptation that seems especially suited to those studying at the undergraduate level, offering not just an entry point into the plays discussed but many suggestions for further reading and research.

Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens have both taught undergraduate Shakespeare courses. They are the co-authors of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation (2013) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance (2016).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Titus AndronicusChapter 2 Richard IIIChapter 3 A Midsummer Night’s DreamChapter 4 Romeo and JulietChapter 5 The Merchant of VeniceChapter 6 HamletChapter 7 OthelloChapter 8 King LearChapter 9 MacbethChapter 10 CymbelineChapter 11 The Winter’s TaleChapter 12 The TempestConclusionReferencesIndex

Entertaining and illuminating … This volume is of great value and provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare in an adaptation that seems especially suited to those studying at the undergraduate level, offering not just an entry point into the plays discussed but many suggestions for further reading and research.